87 years ago today

[August]

Originally Posted by lesrae

In case you hadn't heard of it, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission has a great site at www.cwgc.org which has a huge database of commonwealth casualties in WWI and WWII. I used it recently to locate my great-grandfather's grave marker (Pvt Robert Ross, he was killed in 1915 at Loos) so that my mother could visit it while on a trip over there.

Here's an example of their entries, for the CO of HMS SWORDFISH: http://www.cwgc.org/cwgcinternet/cas...sualty=2370300

I wish there was something similar for the Central powers forces.

[XabbaRus]

Originally Posted by Kapitain

my grandfather wilfred george shaw was an engineer in world war two and was one of the last few hundred people evacuated from dunkirk beeches.

later on during the war he helped build the piers in scapa flow which now hold britians trident submarines.

Hm I wonder if the Orcadians are happy with Trident submarines being based up there.....

Scapa is in Orkney, and the Trident are based at Faslane.

[Hitman]

Great pics guys. And great that you are still proud and remember your ancestors. That's something I respect much

Hmmm :hmm: must scan myself a portrait I have of one of my ancestors who died 1802 in the war of Independece (Spain versus France -Napoleon-) and see about uploading it. He was an artillery officert in the Army and that's the oldest war casualty I know about :hmm:

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by lesrae

In case you hadn't heard of it, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission has a great site at www.cwgc.org which has a huge database of commonwealth casualties in WWI and WWII. I used it recently to locate my great-grandfather's grave marker (Pvt Robert Ross, he was killed in 1915 at Loos) so that my mother could visit it while on a trip over there.

Here's an example of their entries, for the CO of HMS SWORDFISH: http://www.cwgc.org/cwgcinternet/cas...sualty=2370300

Oberon, a quick search brought up about 20 entries for an 'R Currie' in WWI - if you know more information you may be able to locate his details - if it's of interest to you.

Wow, great link there...I'll get in touch with my granddad and see what I can find out, thanks for that